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CHAMBERLAIN AND CHURCHILL.

CHAMBERLAIN AND CHURCHILL
They Are Busy at Work Seeking to Compass
the Doynfall of Lord Salisbury.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
LONDON, July 2.-Tne government are rushing
on the coercion BILL and are SO intent on their
scheme for the ''pacifcation" os Ireland that
they have failed to discover the termination of
plot in their own camp which, if not immedi-
atey frustrated, will certainly result in their de-
struction. There is good reason to believe that
Mr.. Chamberlain and Lord Randolph Churchill
planning an alliance which may prove of
great import to the destnies of the country In
order to fully understand the grounds Of this be-
lief, recollection must be refreshed of the events
of time when Mr. Chamberlain was still consid
cred a sound Radical and when Lord Randolph
Churchill. in the midst of many eccentricities as
leader of the fourth party" was attracting
moro and more support within the Tory ranks
Careful observers even then noted that there was
bond OF union between these apparent antago-
nists which aroused the suspicious of several Lib
erals. If Mr.. Chamberlain made a speech he
was accustomed to bring in the name of Lord
Randolph Churchill. ostensibly to condemn, but
practically to praise him, showing what an
important person he considered him. Lord Ran
compliment to Mr.. Chamberlain, and the ball
was cleverly passed from one to the other until
the unthinkine were almost persuaded that the
only politicians Of whom the future would have
to take serious account were these two, who,
while openly belaboring each other. were. IN
reality. helping each other to a distinct po-
sition in the popular view. Time went on. Mr.
Chamberlain played his game badly that he
found himself discarded by all those thorough
Radicals upon whom he imagined lie could safe
ly lean. and Lord Randolph. thinking
he could stand alone, resigned Office in pet
and fancied for a moment that he had over
thrown Lord Salisbury. In that hour of Tory
trouble the two strangely assorted friends took
counsel in London. Mr.. Chamberlain threw out
feelers for a reconciliation with his old party
upon terms which Lord Randolph would have
had difficulty in accepting, and it was not
until the member for West Birmingham discoy-
cred that the Liberals were staneh to their
principles that he found means to break mp the
'round- table conference" By this time Lord
Randolph also had perceived that he
was not quito the Indispensable person
to the Tory party he had considered
himself to be, and arranged trip to the
continent. just as Mr.. Chamberlain arranged one
to the Highlands to escape, for a period, from
the consequences of rash and ill-considered
ton. Immediately after both had returned to
London, operations for further move were
m ade, and pilot balloon was sent Mr..
Richard Cham berlain, speaking at a city dinner,
a month ago, over which Mr. Joseph Chamber
lain presided. said that when the Irish question
had been solved he believed the Liberal Mon
lists would go back to the old places, and that
the more advanced members of the Tory party
and the more intelligent of the Liberal party
would be found working together for what
they believed to be the common good
of the country. But as only one newspaper in
the whole kingdom thought the remarks of Mr..
Richard Chamberlain worth reporting, his pilot
balloon scared away without attracting atten-
ton, and. therefore, without in the least having
the desired effect Under these circumstances
it was evidently time for the two leaders in the
plot to speak out. and this they did within a
couple of days of each other. Mr.. Cham oerlain,
at Birmingham said: I'VE have to if it be
party, to form some new combination Old
party names have lost their force and moaning
1t may be our duty to discard them, and TO
find others which will better represent
speedily backed up by Lord Randolph
Churchill who. speaking at Wolverhampton-
no great distance from Birmngham-two days
later. asked his audience whether it was best, at
the time, to be silent or to attack the govern
ment on the financial side and himself declared
in favor of the latter course. Retrenchment is
their cry now when one of the partners de-
clares himself ready to accept the responsibility
Of leading the assault. But it may be asked, is
not Lord Salisbury in the way2 He is, and,
therefore, the next step in the cons piracy is to
remove him. A week after Lord Randolph
Churchill had spoken London journal that is
nothing If not strongly Tory, con
which. if it had been published in a Lib
eral paper. would have been characterized
by every Conservative as unwarrsntabls and
even indecent In this article Lord Salisbury
was told that "his health is VIGOROUSLY bad and
bad in a way which disinclines him for exertion;
that he is unsympathetic. and takes painsfso
gain the personal affections of his following
that he appears to resent all counsel and to de-
spise all information except lhat which comes
from his own inner ring of satellites and rela-
TONS and that Lis followers declare they have
no idea of being used like pawns on a chess
board, to be moved about by unknown and
invisible player in support OF the Cecils and Bal
fours.D number OF similar attacks have since
been made. leading to the conclusion that
LORD Salisbury must speedily be shifted out of
his place to make room for Lord Randolph
Churchill ENGLAND does not love Coalitions
once said Mr.. Disraeli, and least of all do they
love them when they involve the abandonment
of every shred of political principle, and the at
tempt of two disappointed politicians to achieve
success at the expense of more consistent men
by promising what each knows it is impossible
to perform. Strange tricks have been played in
politics within the last two years, and he would
be bold who would believe
that England may not see even stranger
things in the immediate future Lord
Randolph Churchill will begin the attack on the
of the War Department. and will
follow it MP by an onslaught one or two other
i'm pcrtant matters Of expenditures in the esti-
mates. Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Parnell are fully
prepared for any contingency which may arise
"a they have been keen observers of the tactics
Or the plotters while the Cabinet has seemed to
be blinded to sense of their own danger by
heir arbitrary zeal in pushing the coercion bill
through Parliament.
THE AFGHAN REBELLION.